Open World PvP is ALIVE!!!!!!

No, but you claim having numbers don't make you a hardcore PvP'er. You being a member of the Zerg tickles me.

Ok, it is possible, granted. But have you actually arranged an event?

I'm a guild leader - to arrange any kind of event it can take a good while. Ops which have 8 man is hard enough. Not only do you have to get your players online at the same time, you also need to get them to the right place at the right time with the right gear/stims/meds blah blah blah. This does take a while!

Next, try telling 30 grown adults what to do... and see if they all follow your instructions to the letter! see if they wait patiently for everyone else to get ready and arrive.

Attacking an unarmed base is one thing, setting up a defense against a 22 man guild camping the port-in is something else!

If you're expecting 30 random people to drop what they are doing to go all the way to a planet where there are no rewards, then it's a rare chance indeed. Not saying it won't happen or that it hasn't, all I'm saying is with other things in the game, this is unlikely.

The fact this Exile group stayed for hours is something I'm laughing at purely because there is no challenge nor purpose for it.

Sounds fun up until the double spawn camping part. There was no real risk of counter attack for those Republics. Anyone entering Hoth is immediately killed or severely weakened by the AoE camp on the spawn point on both the shuttle and the medicenter. The only real ways they could have been forced out is by such a massive zerg that they get overrun at the shuttle. But getting that many 50s to stop whatever they were doing and coordinating is more of a pain than people may want to put up with. Plus the lag the Imps would have to deal with upon arrival means you need even more people to make up for being unable to respond upon landing while all the Republic has to do is keep AoEing the spawn. Alternatively you could get enough people to go die at the shuttle then revive on the spot at the same time. If you die again you have an even longer wait as well while still being stuck in place and unable to chat. If a player dies 3 times they are basically out. Requires less people but you can't chat while dead so only available to people together on third party chat. Probably harder to get than the first one.

As a few people have said it is the equivalent of the Ilum spawn camping (Actually worse since people couldn't even arrive on planet). The only difference is Ilum provides rewards that spawn camping happened across many servers so it was widespread and directly empowering the Empire PvP side.

I led a raiding guild in WoW, I know the futility of trying to organize people who have no real vested interest in what I'm trying to do.

The real reason that this guild was able to keep this foothold so long is because there is very little reason for the Zerg to care. They all have WZ's and Ilum crates to farm. If anything, the OP's guild showed us just how apathetic the community is to actual PvP for the sake of PvP.

It's a sad commentary, because the most fun I've ever had in MMO's was either being part of a big raid on a city or responding to one.

So tonight, guild Exile, took the sith spaceport on Hoth. We denied the entire planet to the sith for hours and hours. Any sith that came in died fast and could not get away from the base or us. Anyone that had to leave hoth had to use their fleetpass.

This message to you idiots out there saying this game has no openworld pvp....i call BS. Man up...get a couple of ops together and go take an opposite factions spaceport. This is called denial of resource.

We had hours of fun. The sith tried to shake us from the planet, but we took them all out.

http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/9403/hothpvp.png

So you can see the issues about mounting any defense would take a special someone to make the effort to arrange something.

So tonight, guild Exile, took the sith spaceport on Hoth. We denied the entire planet to the sith for hours and hours. Any sith that came in died fast and could not get away from the base or us. Anyone that had to leave hoth had to use their fleetpass.

This message to you idiots out there saying this game has no openworld pvp....i call BS. Man up...get a couple of ops together and go take an opposite factions spaceport. This is called denial of resource.

We had hours of fun. The sith tried to shake us from the planet, but we took them all out.

http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/9403/hothpvp.png